Canadian Jewellers Association · Toronto : Maclean-Hunter Pub. Co · leaf 858
metal plate to obtain a surfacewhich will both receive and hold the inlaid decoration.This work, however important, is but preliminary and isintrusted to the apprentice. So with a toy chisel and amake-believe hammer he sets at work. Moving the chiselslowly over a bit of space as long as the width… … right angles andmakes a second.square adjoining thefirst, turns again andmakes a third untilthe plate has becomea checker-board, thesquares of whichare of alternate ver-tical and horizontalparallels. This, ofcourse, has takentime, but the workis only just laid 0t.Again the surface ispatiently gone…
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